ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+5

Topic: Helping Out

Common Core Standards: RL.K.3---With prompting and support, identify characters, settings and major events in a story. RI.K.3---With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information in a text. RF.K.1d--Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. RF.K.3a---Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant. W.K.3---Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred and provide a reaction to what happened. L.K.1a---Print many upper and lower case letters.

Suggested Student Objectives:
 * Identify words that begin with /s/.
 * Learn that the letter Ss stands for /s/.
 * Write the letter Ss.
 * Build background for "Kite Flying."
 * Determine sequence of events.

Suggested Additional Readings: Our Earth: Helping Out by Peggy Hock Clifford's Good Deeds by Norman Bridwell Big Storm by Norman Bridwell Easy to Make Decorative Kites by Gil Bridgewater Asian Kites by Wayne Hosking

Resource Links: [|Helping Hands] [|Grace Lin-Author's homepage] [|How to Make and Build a Kite]

Activities: 1. Show children some actual kites or photos of kites from books or from an online resource. Discuss with the children what kind of weather is best for flying a kite. Brainstorm symbols for basic weather conditions, including sun, rain, snow and wind. Have children use their symbols to make a picture graph of the weather outside for a week. Were there any good days for flying a kite? Why or why not?

2. Have children draw a picture on the steps to put a kite together.

3. Kite Place Mats: Set out sheets of yellow construction paper with a large diamond shape traced on each one. Let your preschool students cut the diamond out with safety scissors. Provide stickers, [|crayons] and markers. Allow your students to decorate their diamonds as they wish. When they have finished, cover the individual diamonds with contact paper and staple on a strip of ribbon or yarn as a kite tail. Your students now have kite place mats to use during snack and lunch times.

Assessments: Children are able to discuss the steps to building a kite.

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